I Spy Super Challenger [Deluxe Edition] [Hardcover]

Jean Marzollo (Author), Walter Wick (Illustrator)

Book Description

Series: I Spy | Publication Date: October 1997

With 24 million copies sold, the bestselling I Spy series is being relaunched with new designs and foil covers.

This bestselling book features a collection of favorite I Spy riddles that send readers searching 12 photographs for hidden objects.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 4. Wick's spectacularly photographed, double-page spreads are taken from favorites such as I Spy Funhouse (1993) and I Spy School Days (1995, both Scholastic). Marzollo's cleverly written new rhyming couplets encourage readers to seek a new batch of items. Playing cards, beads, dominos, blocks, and other trinkets are all arranged attractively and with wit, yet this does not lessen the difficulty of locating the sought-after objects. Extending the usefulness of what might otherwise be a "once through" book are the "Extra Credit Riddles"?couplets that refer back to the pictures on the earlier pages, but for which no specific page is identified. Just as Marzollo created new riddles for this book, children are invited to create more rhymes and riddles of their own based on the pictures.?Linda Greengrass, Bank Street College Library, New York City
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About the Author

JEAN MARZOLLO has written many award-winning children's books, including the I Spy books, the I Spy Little books, and Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King. Jean lives with her husband, Claudio, in New York State's Hudson Valley.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 40 pages
• Publisher: Cartwheel (October 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590341286
• ISBN-13: 978-0590341288
• Product Dimensions: 12.3 x 9.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #150,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

When I was young I was a reluctant reader. It was hard for me to sit still and read a book. I preferred activities that got me moving, like neighborhood ball games, bike riding, skiing, sledding, skating, climbing trees, and exploring the woods in Connecticut where I grew up.

I taught also myself to draw. I became fascinated with shapes, shading, and trying to make the objects in my drawings appear to pop out in 3-D. Later I became interested in photography. I took pictures in the woods with my camera, tinkered with equipment in the darkroom, and experimented with artistic effects.

Much later I became the photographer of the I SPY books, in collaboration with writer Jean Marzollo. I did more than take the pictures. I thought of ideas, sketched ideas, collected props, made props, built sets, arranged objects, hid objects, adjusted lights, and took a picture. Then I rearranged objects and took another picture -- sometimes over and over again.

I write as well as illustrate my own books now. In A DROP OF WATER, I combine simple text with clear photographs to explain science secrets of the everyday world. In WALTER WICK'S OPTICAL TRICKS, the everyday world is turned upside down with impossible objects, phantom images, and other perplexing illusions. With the CAN YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? series, I continue the picture-puzzle tradition, taking readers on ever more amazing adventures of the imagination in their quest for hidden objects.

Happy reading!

Walter Wick

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as fun as the other 'I Spy' books., July 11, 1998

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This review is from: I Spy Super Challenger (Hardcover)

If you loved the other 'I Spy' series, you'll be disapointed in 'Super Challenge.' All photographs are repeats of other books with new objects to find. Not very fun or challenging if you've seen the other books. I recommend skipping this book and getting the others in the same series.

5.0 out of 5 stars I Spy Super Challenger, October 18, 2011

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This review is from: I Spy Super Challenger (Hardcover)

My son loves the I Spy books, no matter what level they are. These are great books to keep their minds sharp.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great books!, February 5, 2010

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This review is from: I Spy Super Challenger (Hardcover)

Great books, they need to make more different ones we have already done all of them.